Not too long ago, I scanned a 3,000 mummy. What can (and can't) be concluded based on his perspicuously elongated skull shape, known as dolicocephy (elongated head)?
I posted before about my scanning of a 3,000 year old mummy, Neskhons. Now, by analyzing the data in several different ranges of electron density, I've found something unexpected: inside the mummy's torso are 4 small funerary amulets.
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Had a great time at the NYT summit with friend and fellow author Charles Duhigg.
Really good companies are the ones that are constantly reinventing themselves. I spoke with Charles Duhigg about habit, unconscious processing and the workspace at the 2016 New Work Summit. Watch the full interview: http://trib.al/1nwghb1
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My favorite New Yorker cartoon. Ever.
I'm a sucker for time jokes.
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The Neuroscience of Engagement
Why don't we do what we know we should? Here's a talk I gave at Stanford Medical School telling why, and what to do about it.
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Can we produce our brains on other media?
Can we reproduce our brains on other media (say, on computers, or out of beer cans and tennis balls)?
In other news...
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Sum named Book of the Year by New Scientist
Sum was the only book of fiction in New Scientist magazine's selection of Best Books of 2009.
Eagleman TED Talk
See David Eagleman's TED talk entitled "Can we create new senses for humans?"
